School doesn't teach you the three most important things in the world: how to have relationships, how to raise children and, most importantly, why on earth you'd want to be in this world in the first place.

School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, brutal violations of common sense and common decency.

There had always been kids in school who were smart-that is, the school said they were smart, they could be shown to have been smart at some time in their lives on the schools own tests-but who did not do well in school, who got bad grades and who were a pain in the ass.